SoCalyorkiLvr--Our friends live up south and none of them would come over for dinner because frankly, I'm not such a good cook (

). The one compelling reason why me and my husband know it's him is that once he went up in the attic to check the vents... He said it will save us money in the long run. And he also said that we shouldn't go up there because the insulation gets really itchy. I also noticed that the cap of the smoke detector fell and was hanging because he stepped on the board where it was directly situated. He knew it fell and even apologized. Even helped put the cap back. Two days before my husband found the camera in the attic, he came in the house wihtout us present because he offered to install the water cooler he sold to us. He called us and said he should be done by five. We arrived home and after 20 mins., he came back and said he forgot to install a valve. We shrugged it off because we do not know anything about fixing things around the house, much less installing the water cooler. My husband talked to him outside after a while and my husband mentioned that he was working for a security company who supplies equipments to NASA and some of the county sheriffs in the US. He said he once owned a pinhole camera that he can check in his house. He said that he bought it for his restaurant in california. That triggered my husband's suspicions. He didn't mention it to me, because he knew I'd freak out about it because I never felt comfortable around this guy. My father-in-law knew it. Anyway, when he left, I noticed that the cap of the same smoke detector fell again. I asked my husband if the landlord mentioned anything about fixing something up in the attic.
I have typed out two pages of the weird things that happened before that now made sense. My husband and I feel so naive and plain stupid that we fell right into his trap. The detectives know it;s him. They told me he's had run ins with the law in california and knew how to get out of it. That freaked me out even more because that means we;re dealing with an experienced criminal here.